Chapter 38 Home invasion. (1/2)

Roland closed the door behind him after he entered his workshop On the inside, there werehis new class he had cleaned up the place and even set up so every resource he had like iron, bronze, and copper Even during his work, he was sure to even pick up thesmelter which he could use toaboutto make his first sword from bronze

This would hasten the process by quite a bit as he wouldn't need to hammer it into shape thathis craft but he had only reached the second level of his Blacks hi a lot more time with this third one

Only after this, he would finally be getting into the tier 2 se class waiting for hi and all the s related skills to the maximum before the job class quest, to be sure

All of those s skills that he received, runecraft included were at level 2 now He could already feel that he was getting better at his new craft The strain that runecrafting put on hih all of his h

This orking with a soft material like bronze Iron would double or triple the time spent and one of the rareskill had its lier it took Inscribing the traces wasn’t that easy and they had to be placed through most of the weapon

He placed the two paddle-like wands on his workbench and glanced at them There was a reason heso low he couldn’t coe just for the entire rune to fit in He had decided on the mana bolt spell as it was the shcosts, this weapon was very usable He wanted to move on to the next step and inscribe a common rune but there was a problem First, a common rune was many times harder to make, he would probably need from four days to a week for it

The second probleot the lesser e paddle shape mass of bronze He calculated that if he wanted to create a si the shape he would end up with so like a tennis racket instead It would be made from bronze or iron and the balance would be a real problem He could try to make the handle fro two different h those It was soe piece of metal The traces flowed into each other without a hitch But even adding a wooden handle or cloth on top would s difficult There just needed to be direct contact, the mana a person injected into the item dissipated really fast unless you had the runic pathways close by

The only way he had to go around this was so the wood as part of the rune Wood was also a lot worse for runecrafting as it just didn’t cope with the ical wood for so like that, which made runic bows a lot ht that there had to be some kind of way to connect armor and weapon parts with each other Even souard that were inserted separately There had to be so to be one solid piece of ht have been a skill that a tier 2 runesmith achieved or one that could be learned froo ask around or buy soical paddles He started up the forge with the help of his eh temperature to ith bronze and iron If he wanted to ical metals he would need a better fuel source This also ular steel in the future with this basic forging equipment

There was a version of iron ore that had absorbed mana called ‘Deep Iron’ It was found deep inside the earth closer to its core and gave runic equipe You could make ‘Black Steel’ from it that improved upon its qualities even more This was one of the better metals that wasn’t all that pricey It was cheaper than Mirthil, that material was mostly used by people of tier 3 and above They werelike that

There was also a limit on the rand rune structure Thethe pathways unusable Even if a runesmith inscribed them, a weapon like that would probably only last once before o with lesser runes for now

He used tongs to slowly heat up the rasped one of the hammers and infused his ical weapon, with each hit parts of the runic inscriptions were reconstructed back into their previous shape

Before going to the other paddle he looked at the blacks There was a frown on his face as this ite worked by forcing e the integrity of the tool and with ti

The ha was a new one that he created hi but the products that he waswere barely passable This was a lot harder than scribing that h dexterity aided hith was holding hi if he ha

Just like now, his staical weapon Luckily stamina recovered a lot faster than o The clinging sounds continued into the night and Roland had to speed this up as his neighbors would coer

While the youth orking on his weapons and items the rest of the city was silent After dark,in a tavern or back hoh, the type that a regular citizen feared to cross paths with

They were all wearing cloth ar with some hardened leather here and there Their faces were covered by hoods and they hadtheir mouths Everyone here had the class of thief and couldthe guards that weren’t really paying that e and there weren’t that many soldiers The city lord mostly used his men to protect the richer districts, this left places like Southtown unprotected This district here the lower-income couards didn’t wonder here her-ups

These fourtheir way there, they were anization that er cities had The people that were uild deeerous Souilds at the sa into this guild but one of thea thievery-related class This was either a thief or a bandit class which showed the guild masters that you were one of them

They arrived just in ti on soht, the four spread out to exa themselves hidden They had to see all the entrance and escape points that this old building had before deciding on the course of action

After they were finished they moved back into the shadows to discuss further actions

“Large door at the front, locked froo down easy”

“Windows behind are closed but just wood and fli probably into the office or bedroo here…”

The thieves started forh the front door and destroy the whole place or sneak in They decided on the latter, the s that were at the back of this warehouse looked the easiest They could just clih them and then slit the throat of whoever lived here

“We ait for the target to go to sleep, remember what the job said”

The thieves nodded while slowlyplaces The request stated that they should take whatever the person on the inside orking on They would receive a bonus if they brought so the warehouse they were planning on burning the place with the owner’s body inside They just needed to wait until he went to bed